C.B. talking about plate tectonics to students from the Immaculate Heart High School visiting UCLA. Photos from MEDL
New group member

UCLA undergraduate student Helen Feng joins our group. She will be working on the High Lava Plains seismic data. Welcome Helen!
Leeds
C.B. gives invited talk at the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds (UK): “Seismic Anisotropy From the Core to the Crust”
New group member
Graduate student Kaiqing Yuan joins our group and will be working on modeling global azimuthal anisotropy
UCLA COR Faculty Research grant
C.B. is awarded the 2009-2010 UCLA COR Faculty Research grant. To be used to work on the High Lava Plains seismic data
Peru Field Trip
C.B. went to Peru for the ESS 136 class! See pictures here
A UCLA award
C.B. received the UCLA Faculty Career Development Award. These awards “are given annually to assistant professors, providing research support at a critical time in the pre-tenure stage”.
ESS 8 Field trip
ESS 8 field trip to Vasquez Rocks, to the San Andreas Fault at Palmdale Lake, and HWY 14 road cut in Palmdale, CA.
Pictures here.

First NSF grant awarded!
C.B. is awarded NSF EAR grant #0838605 “Seismological Constraints on Global Mantle Anisotropy”
Invited talk
C.B. gives invited seminar in the Berkeley Seismo Lab: “Seismic Anisotropy in the Nevada Great Basin: Evidence for Lithospheric Delamination?”


































































